When Should I Upgrade My CPU?

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When Should I Upgrade My ProcessorI have a P4 2.66 GHz processor right now. When should I upgrade my processor (or mobo possibly)? Mainly, when will my processor gets too old? I am not interested in top of the line processor, I’m on a budget here.

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Which would you consider to be the biggest in size and best in response time and dpi corded gaming mouse?I own a Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse K7A (corded) .

Pros: Its heavy and this gives you better precision than light mouse you can put (3) 10 gram weight on it included when you buy it.

Cons: Its still a bit small for my XL hand size.

Also a Logitech G7 which is very small and its lame to have to be switching the batteries every 2-3 hours of gaming. With this one I developed a heavy pain on my hand and I had to stop using it because it made me make my hand like a taco to hit the left and right button ending up in a serious lesion.

I replaced a MSI board (die) with FoxConn/Winfast NF4UK8AA-EKRS socket 939. The PC posted – I booted into XP Pro just fine but after 1-3 minutes it freezes up. Microsoft wanted reactivation key, finally I got online but the OS would not let reactive. I reformatted the HD and installed XP home (new never used), but the whole time the PC keeps freezing up. The CPU is good, video good, optical drive good, PSU good. I am hooked all this up to ASUS A8S-X mobo that was given to me.

The ASUS board I am on now is fine and I been using it 2 days with no issues have not even installed drivers for it yet.

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